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title: But Catherine, stepping in front of the houses, called out, "Good pe… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: But Catherine, stepping in front of the houses, called out, "Good people, what have you that we can steal?" Who acts: Catherine, you, we. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 109

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But Catherine, stepping in front of the houses, called out, "Good people, what have you that we can steal?"

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**Who acts:** Catherine, you, we · **What happens:** step, call out, have, steal · **To what, where:** front, Catherine, Good people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catherine, you, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:12:109
# text = But Catherine, stepping in front of the houses, called out, "Good people, what have you that we can steal?"
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	stepping	step	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | gerund | Catherine *not said here* |  |  | front of the houses |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory |
| 2 | **call out** *speech: ask* | participle · passive |  | Catherine |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | Good people |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 4 | **steal** *in a quote* | can | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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